"Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment," he said. "By the way, and if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."

"It sounds like just a joke gone bad. I hope he clears it up very quickly," he told a reporter. "You should never joke about something like that."

Appearing on Fox News later Tuesday, Trump told Sean Hannity that he had only called for Second Amendment supporters to take political action.

"There can be no other interpretation," he said. "I mean, give me a break."

Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook, released a statement Tuesday about Trump’s comments: "This is simple – what Trump is saying is dangerous. A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.”